MSNBC National Correspondent Joy Reid stated that conservatives “almost infantilize” women by saying they wouldn’t punish them for having abortions if abortion was criminalized on Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball.”

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Reid said, “[T]he doctrine has you don’t make the subtext of the anti-abortion movement into text. You don’t take it to its logical conclusion, you know, other than Richard Mourdock and Akin, and some of these guys who make a mistake, you’re not supposed to give away the game that the idea is that you want to completely criminalize abortion. You sort almost infantilize the woman and say, no, she’s a victim. We just want to criminalize the provider.”